unmitigated disaster. or about 25 minutes. >> alyssa, i've got to tell you that when you wrote that column about president obama's west point speech and compared him to a krispy kreme dough nut. krispy kreme doughnuts wrote back to say no way. my dear friend introduced me. i got up and i said right. [laug] news has now started hiring brunettes.

a blonde, but she is a dark blonde. we are excited this is a new trend. i even katie pavlovic, a going to come and talk about foreign-policy. i started writing my remarks two weeks ago. to theistening on monday president's press secretary who said president obama has ushered in a new era of global tranquility. so i wrote this speech. guess what. by thursday, there were several wars. i decided i'm going to rewrite the speech and talk to you about why we are not in an era of global tranquility. i think the last six years of american foreign-policy, would

never seen a more dangerous world with bad leaders. we've been in bad places before. a civil war, world war ii, there have been very difficult and dark times. this is one of the few times we've had extremely weak leadership which wants to step world stage. would president obama -- say that obama didn't haveading from behind you others that step up to fill the gap. everything that had happened before, america's leadership in the world, george bush, was creating a de-stabilize world. a thought of it took america down a notch and everybody would be equal and we would have this

era of global governance and community. it's been a disaster. if i ask you to raise your hand, how many of you think we are an era of greater point: the -- greater tranquility? we are smart. nobody raised their hands. and do a go around summary of why we have problems in various regions and what i think may be the way out of it. if you look at what has happened in the last 72 hours, yesterday we have the russians shoot russian forces in eastern ukraine a civilian airliner out of the air. i don't think they would have without a sense that united states had abdicated its leadership role in the world. afternoon,n in the israel went into gaza to try to destroy the tunnels that have

been plaguing israel security. they went into gaza, address the hamas military threat. i don't think we would have been hamas been as bold as they have been and well supplied as they have been without a sense that america wasn't going to do anything about it. those are stark examples in the last 72 hours of america's withdrawal leadership in the world. i think it's bigger than that. if i go around the world and a quick tour of the global crises, look at i reckon syria. the islamic state e islamicnd syria, th state. it's in part of iraq. it has robbed a bank. he richest terrorist group in the world. $2 billion under their belt. they seize oil fields. they are going to have a replenishment of that money in the years to come.

their goal is to expand in the middle east. they have said jordan next, at the sinaiing peninsula. al qaeda, even though the president has said a year ago al qaeda is on the run, we got bin in morel qaeda is countries and inventor strengths than ever before. they are throughout the middle east. they are in north africa. they are in somalia. .hey are in nigeria the most upsetting, from a security standpoint, two things. they have a new leader, a charismatic guy who will be the man who inherits the mantle of osama bin laden. 4000 are somewhere between fighters in iraq and serious who carry american and european passports. they have valve that next stop, new york. the charismatic leader, he calls

, he said when he left see you in new york. causeobjective is to come terrorist activity not only in the region but in the united states and europe. they have the means to do that because if you have a european passport you can enter easily. we have a porous southern border, people with american passports can enter the united states easily. as much as we think it is a global government air of tranquility, i think al qaeda, which continues to present an enormous threat to the united states, that is where it is going to grow. the second part of that, iran. the nuclear negotiations we been having indiana with iran have soared have failed. we have had a six-month extension.

we will negotiate for the next six months to dismantle their nuclear program. the iranians have said we are not dismantling it. we want you to relieve the sanctions on us our economy can improve. we have no intention of dismantling. iran morenow in centrifuges then we have starbucks. the supreme leader of iran who makes the decisions he has said they would like 10 times as many. iraq where al qaeda is now attending. we have i ran him bold them. they think they have a terrific deal with united states. go to israel and hamas. we've seen israel go to the gaza strip. we've seen hamas supplied by assaulttinuing its against israel. i don't think iran and their clients have any intention of

defeating israel on the battlefield. they know they can't. rockets into israel israel has created this new missile defense system. they know they dig tunnels under the ground the israelis will find those. theythey do now is that can win in the court of public opinion. that is why if this conflict that just ordered yesterday between israel and gaza and hamas on the gaza strip continues for a week to 10 days, which you will, you will see public opinion turned against israel. hamas understands that if they have enough casualties, if they can show the world this is terrible, israel is killing our civilians, the world public opinion turns against israel. israel becomes isolated. their ultimate goal is not when on the battlefield but to drive a wage between the united states and israel. not great for this era of global trade quality.

if you live -- if you move further, afghanistan. maybe that was never ours to win. it is ours to lose. i dove in further. building a blue water navy. their military, which is more aggressive than their political leadership, has maps that shows the south china sea is an internal chinese lake. anybody flying over that needs to get chinese permission. ity are not going to enforce , but that is on their plan. the south china sea region includes vietnam, thailand, cambodia, philippines, malaysia. if you take it further north, it includes south korea and japan. those countries are nervous about american abdication of the region and the leadership role in the pacific.

let's swing to your. before we go to the europe was good to the southern border. mexico. we don't have a southern border anymore. i'm concerned with an immigration problem an economic problem, those are problems, but we can solve those. it will take time and money but we can solve them. if that southern border has people who are coming through that porous border who carry a backpack, they have a backpack bomb. children coming across here, you have suicide bombers coming across. the fact we have seen on the american side of the rio grande dictionaries which are english, translations, and we have indications that there are in the groups coming across the southern border populations that come from very dangerous places, pakistan, afghanistan.

that is my concern. in that porous southern border where it comes across, it is not people who want to take down the world trade center. it is numbers of people who could come across the united states, they are experienced fighters, they know what they are doing. americand marry passport holders and you could see eight years from now sustained and continuous terrorist attacks on the united states. little ones. that is more dangerous than big ones. if you have a since there were 10 simultaneous attacks on american shopping centers across the country we would stay home and hide under the bed. where we have a real danger of our southern border. across the atlantic, our relations with the europeans are very bad right now. the germans are supposed to be our great allies won't even talk to the white house.

angela merkel who has been a stalwart success in the european union economically, politically, we spied on her. we never apologize. allies, those our are afraid. of al end with my tour happy world with the situation with russia. very -- hasin has various ambitions. what we have seen is israel ambition. to reclaim the soviet empire. he gave a speech when he annexed the soviet union several months ago, crimea several months ago. i thought maybe we could do a deal with putin down the road if we were able to give him what he wanted in we could get what we wanted. he gave us something that shook

us up. he spoke in the grand kremlin palace. chandelierseautiful , and the place where the czars had held courts, and where the soviet leadership has held court , he gave a speech saying we are annexing crimea and we are holding the western front for the americans who lied to us, who cheated us, who stole from us. it was impassioned. all the people stood on their chairs and were crying. what i understood at that point was any sense of accommodation with the russians isn't going to happen. not with this leadership. they have a different goal. when the russians put in troops along the border, have troops inside ukraine, that followed

don knapp -- followed on naturally. i went to kiev after the election and met with the head of the intelligence community and the chief of staff at the military. they said you guys don't get it. we have been invaded on our eastern border. the russians have troops along the border. they've also sent troops and tanks and. the insignia off. they have sat and tanks, aircraft, and various high levels of ammunition. we have been invaded. the russians will tell you that they have nothing to do with it. this is just ethnic russians who like the people in crimea, wanted to hook up with the mothership. it has been an invasion.

what we saw is exactly what happens when the invasion takes root. news -- the world now understands that the phony war that i was hearing about five weeks ago is now in the open. people understand what putin is doing. to do it just the plan on the eastern ukrainian border. this is the plan that putin had to go country after country, exciting the ethnic russians on the eastern border of russia, and getting them to leave their areas, to abdicate their and rejoin russia. now the world knows what he is up to. what would the world do about it? this is terrific right? iran is about to get nuclear weapons and cause an arms race. israel is in a very dangerous position.

al qaeda is now taking over countries, declaring it that they want to kill all christians and jews in the birthplace of christianity and judaism. the porous southern border. it sounds grim. let me ask you, how many of you think that america's best days are over? that we're are a country on decline? that the world has passed us by. the majority think that. they are wrong. good old america. there are two theories breed one start,l countries rise, have their day, then decline. the other school of thought is that america is exempt from this. we are different. we keep reinventing ourselves because of who we are. in ase we come together

different system of government that favors and enshrines, and encourages. risk-taking, personal responsibility. somehow we are exempt from the universal law. i was really a couple of years ago thinking the first version. the rise, shine, decline. that i have any last two years come to think that maybe we are the exception. here's why. not because as you would listen to republicans, some during the last presidential cycle, when they would stand up and say who believes in america exceptionalism and they would all say i believe. iike peter pan, think nkerbell comes back to life. there is factual basis. fracking, you are at the

forefront of this. we have in the last 3-5 years, the united states and americans, we have developed the technology to look deep underground, 3-d mapping, and realize we have a lot of energy. we have developed the technology to drill down deep and horizontally to extract that energy at a reasonable price. what does that do? that is a game changer. not only is it going to make great jobs in colorado, it is a game changer. here's what's going to happen. two years from now. six years from now. you are going to have cheap energy. it is going to create energy jobs. cheap energy jobs across the united states. the second thing, because of cheap and inexpensive energy, we are going to have a resurgence and repatriation of

manufacturing jobs. rumor ross perot ran for president. all the jobs are leaving the country. they are coming back. they are coming back because it's a great place to do business. i met with the two heads of the european energy companies, totalis and emi. they said europe is never going to recover economically because our competitors are america. america, whatever the price is going to be to manufacture in germany, it's going to be cheaper to manufacture in the united states. your energy is going to be less expensive. energygoing to have good jobs now. the next round is manufacturing returns to the united states. then there will be another third round.

when cheap american energy hooks up with 3-d printing, nanotechnology, and bioengineering. makee looking, it would the right decisions in the next 2-3 years, at a 20 year run where the united states is going to be as prosperous as we have just enjoyed with the technology , computer, high-tech boom. we have to make the right decisions. i don't think we are making those decisions. when i look around the world today, i same tough times for the next couple of years. deal with china, open the border. i look beyond that and say america's future is indeed very bright. it's not a given. if we make the right political decisions, and pressure our political leaders to make the right decisions, i think the united states for our children and grandchildren will be very great indeed. to quote my old boss, once again america will be a shining city on a hill. [laughter]

[applause] you may not realize this. we go way back. we were both working for president nixon. he had a big job for president nixon. he wrote president nixon speeches. i typed them. we are back again. [laughter] >> the typists have the ultimate control. >> i always knew you were a smart guy. thank you. it just keeps getting better. thee been talking about conservative summit mobile app. searcher ipad for that. you can get badges for things you have done to be digitally

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you want to make sure you look ok. i had a blue dress on earlier. i just changed. [laughter] [applause] thank you margaret thatcher. thanks. >> thank you k.t. mcfarland. next to the state of the national security and a theussion of oversight at department of homeland security and the white house medal of honor ceremony for ryan pitts. on the next washington journal, martin klingst and middle ukraine

east. and what his organization expects from new leadership at the v.a. thewhat remains on legislative agenda before congress adjourned for the august recess and your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> michelle is our guest on this week's q&a. >> if you're in government, you are dealing with the daily tierney of the inbox. part of my responsibility was representing the secretary of defense on the deputy's committee, the senior level group that is working through the issues for the principles and a lot of crisis management focus. when you are in a think tank, your utility is not trying to second-guess the policymaker on the issues of the day, but help

to raise their gaze over the horizon to see the issues they are going to confront a year from now, 10 years from now. how do i think about america's role in the world? flournoy on the mission of cnas, its and defense policy issues. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> on tuesday, james clapper said the intelligence community faces a perfect storm that is endangering u.s. national security including budget cuts and a loss of intelligence sources caused by the edward snowden links. -- leaks. this is about 15 minutes. a half. [applause]